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I Lh LOW GIVEN Li BY U. :; mm Invasion Costs More Money UpYourPayioll Savings today VOL. XLVIII NO. 211 OF THE San Vittore Wqn by Yankees After Bloody 40-Hour Fight; Reds Knife Deeper Into Foe Defenses Of Cassino Now Under Attack Allied Planes Hammer Airfields, Rail Yards In Italy and Yugoslavia ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al piers, Jan. 8. (AP) Victorious American troops massed around captured San Vittore today form ing a spearhead which stormed at the outer defenses of Cassino, 70 straight-line miles from Rome. The fall of the fiercely-defended little mountain villages of San Vittore alongside the via Casiiina was disclosed yesterday by Asso ciated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead. His dispatch from the front said that San Vittore had been seized Thurscray after a vio lent 40-hour battle from house to house. The village Is six miles from Cassino. The capture was confirmed to day in the headquarters commu nique, which said that the Fifth army had advanced all along a ' ln Mtln fnn, t Ka ArtA 1.111. on both sides of "the -road. - Even before this official an nouncement of the taking of San Wttore, the Americans had smashed on in the direction of Cassino and were fighting In the streets of Glusto, a tiny village more than half a mile to the north. Air Force Deals Blows. Across the Peninsula, the Eighth army engaged In strong patrol activity, today's commu nique said, while allied bombers pounded the airfield at Perugia In Central Italy, blasted an aircraft factory at Maribor In Northern Yugoslavia, struck at the railway I Continued -n page 6i In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS THE shooting war situation re I mains unchanged as this is written. On the Polish border west of Kirv, von Mannstein (nazi com mander in that area) has re livat.'d into the great Pripet marshes and appears to have re organized his defense. German resistance there is reported to be much stiffer. The Russians seem to be devot- ft Ing the bulk of their effort to their drive to the southeast, to ward the Odessa railroad and the Rumanian border. Reports put them about 50 miles from the railroad, which at this point Is about 50 miles from Rumania. TRAPPING wlyitevcr Germans remain in southern Russia is the main objective of this drive, but don't forget that the NOW uneasy Balkans (especially Rumania and Bulgaria) will be MUCH UNEASIER when the Russian armies reach the Dnie ster (Rumanian boundary). ON the west we (Americans and British) go on wrecking Ger man cities from the air. Stettin, on an arm of the Baltic 100 miles northeast of Berlin, got It Wed nesday night. Berlin was raided by swift Mosquito bombers as a side issue. An Idea of the scope of our air war on the west may be gained from the fact that the Stettin at tack was the THIRD by the big RAF night bombers In the five ' days then elapsed In January. ITS just possible that our (U. S. I and British) job Is to go on wrecking Germany from the air (Continued on page 2) JlW lUv,, LIU UL JUL EVENING NEWS Rumanians Flee From Frontier-Area As Reds Approach; Hungary Refuses Refuge fo Nazis and Croat Puppets BERN, Switzerland, Jan. 8. (AP) Rumania has begun a hasty dismantling of factories In the frontier towns of Cernauti, Chrisinau and other places in the northern province of Bucovina and the eastern province of Bes sarabia, a Budapest dispatch to the Basler Nachrichten said to day. Increasingly threatened by so viet advances which are within about 50 miles of the old Ruman ian frontier, the Rumanian gov ernment has ordered the machin ery of as many factories as pos sible to be moved to the interior behind mountains, the dispatch said. The evacuation measures ex tended throughout Bessarabia and Bucovina with peasant carts loaded high with goods, blocking the roads in flight into the inter ior. The peasants were said to be driving long columns of cattle be Hood River PUD Proposal Turned Down by 313 Votes HOOD RIVER, Ore' Jan. 8. (AP) An 865to-552 defeat at the polls in the Hood River Peo ple's utility district turned public power advocates today to other districts in their plan to get con trol of three private utilities serv ing a large part of Oregon and Washington. They predicted the Wasco County PUD or an association of Oregon and Washington PUD's would be the scene of the next campaign to put over the most ambitious public power proposal yet advanced in the Pacific north west. Up for approval would be a nlan similar to that defeated in the rural Hood River district yes terday a proposal to issue $175, 000,000 in bonds to finance pur chase of the Pacific Power and Light company, Northwestern Electric and Portland General Electric. Despite snow and ice, the bitterly-contested election drew a record vote in Hood River valley. The PUD contains only about 2000 registered voters as the city of Hood River voted itself out four years ago and Cascade Locks has its own power system. Under guidance of Guy C. Myers, New York fiscal agent, and Robert W. Beck, engineer, Hood River PUD directors called for a special election two months ago. The plan was to turn over segments of the big companies to PUD's in Washington -and to others yet to be formed. End of Foundry Strike Is Expected Monday SEATTLE, Jan. 8. (API Possibility that full production In northwest foundries would be reached by Monday loomed brighter today following votes last night by Tacoma and Port land members of the AFL-Inter-national Moulders and Foundry Workers union to remain on the Job an da decision of the Everett local to return to work not later than Monday. Seattle union leaders passed a similar back to work resolution night before last. The men started leaving the job Thursday in protest over a regional War Labor board wage Increase recommendation, which was said to have called for a 2 12 to 5 cent hourly Increase for unskilled workers only. No Increase was granted journeymen. fore them. Civilians have been forbidden the use of the railways. Wealthy Rumanians abroad were said to be convinced that the Russian advance means the end of their fortunes, but their fears were as nothing compared to those still in Rumania where there was panic selling of real estate. Meanwhile Hungarian frontier guards were said by the Basler Nachrichten to have refused entry to 1,600 Ustachis (Croat puppet troops) and about 100 German militarized elite guards fleeing from Yugoslav partisans and at tempting to escape across the frontier from Yugoslavia. The Bulgarians presumably count on their old friend Russia to be kind and forgiving In post war deals, but on the basis of In formation available here Ruman ians are frankly worried as the Red army speeds toward the frontier. Soldiers at Front Yant to Vote, Says Army Newspaper ALGIERS, Jan. 8. (AP) "Sol diers on the front want to fight and they want to vote," an edi torial in the army newspaper Stars and Stripes said today. The newspaper, published for Americans In this war theater, said soldiers polled by it were overwhelmingly in favor of par ticipating in U. S. elections this year and called upon congress to enact a uniform balloting law. The editorial expressed disap pointment in a senate-approved measure which leaves soldier-balloting up to the states, saying that the soldiers believe that "they would be unable to make proper use of the franchise un less congressmen passed some kind of uniform law making it simple for .citizen soldiers to vote." ' The editorial said replies to the poll from the soldiers "Indi cate that they are primarily con cerned with the right to vote for its own sake and reflect the belief that members of tha American citizen army, even if tslJe the continental limits of Jie "Jnlted States, retain the basic righls and privileges of citizenship." The editorial added that the closer the soldiers have been to the front the more strongly they feel on the subject, as the Naples edition has received more mail about it than the African editions. Constitution Doesn't Bar Poverty or Profit WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) The constitution doesn't guar antee that a man won't go broke, or that he won't pile the green backs up to here. During an argument on. OP A authority before the supreme court, attorneys for two Boston meat dealers complained that price ceilings had put some deal ers out of business, and prevent ed others from making a profit. Solicitor General Charles Fahy observed: 'There is no constitutional guarantee against bankruptcy." He added that neither does the constitution guarantee the right to make a profit. Strike of Philadelphia Employees Continues PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8 (AP) Three thousand striking public works emoloyees remain ed Idle a third dav todav. their representatives having voted un animously to spurn the advice of union leaders and to "keep the men out until we get our 10 cents an hour Increase." THEDOUGLRS. COUNTY DAILY ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1 944. Garrison at Kirovograd Seen Doomed Russian Tank Assault Said Creating Panic in Rear of German Forces LONDON, Jan. 8. (AP) Kirovograd, Industrial and rail center of the Dnieper bend, has been captured by the Russian army, Marshal Stalin announced today. MOSCOW, Jan. 8. (API Troops of the First and Second Ukrainian armies poured through great gaps In the. German lines in swift advances today and units which had surrounded Kirovo grad smashed to within three miles of the city in one place In the Dnieper bend country, as the red' army's winter offensive continued on the upsurge. Advance units of the force which captured Klesow, at the northern tip of the great drive, were plunging deeper into Rovno province (eastern part of did Po land) -and reached .a. point, with in 12 miles of Sarny. Farther south from encircled Kirovograd, stronghold for the German forces In the Dnieper bend, some soviet forces lunged forward to within 18 miles of Dolinovka, western railway junc tion which feeds Krovol Rog. Troops of Gens. Vatutin and Konev, which have joined south of Kiev, meanwhile were within striking distance of Kanev, 64 miles southeast of the Ukrainian capital. " (The British Broadcasting com pany said Kirovograd's outer de fenses already were under shell (Continued on page til Two Infants Die in Home Fire as Mother Shops PUYALLUP, Wash., Jan. 8. (AP) Two baby sons of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hcnrichs were burn ed fatally last night when a de fective chimney caused a fire In their home while the mother was shopping across the street. William Jerry, 2, died in the flames and his 9-month-old broth er, Gerald Edward, succumbed three hours later In a Tacoma hospital. A third brother, Jerome, 3, re ceived only minor burns before he raced to warn his mother. Mrs. Henrichs was treated for shock and facial burns received when she entered the home In an ef fort to rescue the children. Highlights of To Wartime By C. A. BRAND (News-Review Convention Reporter) The delegates to the 1944 CIO convention had been gathering for some time in the convention hall at Roseburg Friday before the first session was called to or der, and one could not help con trasting the quiet and serious at mosphere of this group with the hilarious and rather irresponsible appearance of some other conven tions that might be named. These men were full-grown, earnest, ex perienced citizens who had learn ed a lot about labor and its prob lems by years of labor and who had come to honestly try to clear away some of the clouds that darken the sky now and lead the way to brighter days In the future brighter for labor, and that means for us all. Two hundred accredited dele gates were prcsent-and when we say accredited we mean accredit ed. The name of every man of them was read to the convention with the names of others of his Allies Blast Troop-laden Nippon Barges Daily Attacks on Rabaul Continue; Navy Ready For Foe, Knox Declares i . . ADVANCED ALLTED HEAD QUARTERS. New Guinea, Jan. 8. (AP) At Rabaul's Blanche bay, so hufh It could accommodate battleships and ocean, liners, two barges loaded with Japanese trooos have been sunk bv allied fighter planes from the Solo mons. This humiliating blow, announc ed today by Gen. MacArthur's headquarters, Is In sharp contrast with reports of last October when the enemy's New Britain strong hold merited the attention of big bombers which had such choice targets as cruisers and big cargo vessels. , The barge sinkings are estimat ed to have cost the enemy 100 ded and wounded soldiers. Rabaul is being visited dally by the Solomon fighters which tan gle with enemv Interceptors and go after targets of opportunity as they circle the volcano-ringed harbor. Allied planes destroyed or dam aged 30 along the coast of New Britain ' and northeastern New Guinea, headquarters reported to day. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) Don't get any Ideas about the Japanese fleet being afraid to fight, says Navy Secretary Knox, just because-they haven't stuck necks out of Toyko harbor or whenever they may be hiding. '1151 probably; he told a press (Continued on page 6) Universal Service For U.S. Forecast WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. (AP) The army and navy journal said today it expects President Roosevelt to recommend to con gress next week legislation Insti tuting universal service. Contending that the only way for this country to counter Ger man propaganda that strikes are evidence of war-weariness in the United States Is "prompt Instltu of universal service," the journal added: "And we shnll relv upon con gress to enact It without delay " The unofficial service publica tion said editorially that General George C. Marshall "spoke from an angered heart when during a special press conference called on last Friday (December 31) he Is reported to have said that the railroad and steel strike threats were a great tragedy and the damnedest crime ever committed against America." Marshall, the journal said, had received "comprehensive reports of our Intelllgenc eofflcers and those of our allies" that the axis was using the rail and sleel strike in propaganda directed to the peoples of Germany and the satellite countries. CIO Convention Refer Service, Health, Politics group If any. And after each group the president asked, "Are there any objections?" (a pause) "If not approved." Only bona fide members may vote on the Important matters to be handled by this convention. Achievements Cited. The joint report of President Ernest Baker and Secretary Stan ley Earl was one of the outstand ing features of the day, and while It will be taken up for discussion of Its recommendations at a later session, a few of Its points may well be mentioned. The report makes plain "the main activity of the state council" is "in the field of legislation and political action," and urges that adequate financial prepartlon be made for It. It urges that all support possible be given the OPA and speaks of the valuable work of the Labor Advisory commission cooperating with the OPA. The report also speaks with Justifiable pride of the fact that CIO's 5,000, 000 members In this country have raised $22,000,000 for war relief, vol. xxxii no. Wife of Former President Hoover Claimed by Death Mrs. Herbert Hoover. NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-(AP) Mrs. Herbert Hoover, America's first lady" from 1929 to 1933. Is dead. With former President Hoover at her side, she died unexpectedly at their Waldorf towers apart ment last night, shortly after she was stricken with an acute heart attack. Mrs. Hoover, who was 68, had just returned from a concert and appeared in good health. Then the stroke came, just as her hus band was telling her goodbye pre paratory to leaving for a dinner. Notification of her death was sent immediately to her two sons, Allan Hoover, a California ranch er, and Herbert Hoover, Jr., a radio engineer. Mrs. Hoover was the former Lou Henry, daughter of Charles D. Henry, a Waterloo, Iowa, banker. 1 , Both sle and.her husband were born and reared In Iowa, but their first meeting and courtship were on the Stanford campus in Cali fornia. After their marriage they tramped the globe, living In Tien tsin, Mandalay, Tokyo, St. Peters burg and London. Mrs. Hoover wore no jewels and used no cosmetics. Her shoes were low heeled. Her morning clothes were simply tailored. As head and later honorary leader of the Girl Scouts, she was re spected as an ideal prototype as well as for her personal, affec tionate service. W. K. Vanderbilt, Ex-Head Of N. Y. Central Ry., Dies NEW YORK, Jan. 8. (AP) William KIssam Vanderbilt, 65, former president of the New York Central railroad and one of the nation's foremost yachtsmen, died today of a heart ailment He was one of the wealthiest men in the United States and a great grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of both the railroad and the Vander bilt family fortune. With his brother' Harold he was a residuary legatee In the $56,000,000 estate left by his fath er, also named William KIssam Vanderbilt. In the First World war he serv ed as lieutenant commander In the navy aboard one of his own vessels. and are looking forward to full participation In the International councils of labor. A fact which many did not know was that through' efforts of the CIO and Its Mr. Hartung a fine recreation building was pro vided for the soldiers at Camp Adair, a facility which is tremen dously appreciated by them. And It all points to the fact that this great organization Is 100 per cent out to win the war. A very Interesting address was made by Wm. T. Geurtz of the West Coast Lumber commission. He does not want to discard the phrase "New Deal" or the New Deal Itself and says that he Is convinced that lubor Is mostly democrat. He regrets that con gress Is yielding to pressure groups, but that being the situa tion In Washington, he urges that the farmers and labor get togeth er to form the greatest pressure group of all and one that no one (Continued on page 6) I s am of roseburg review No-Strike Vow Cancellation Asked of CIO Other Resolutions Deal With Pensions, Taxes, Urge Holman's Ouster Rapidly disposing of prelimin aries, the sixth annual conven tion of the C. I. O., Oregon Indus trial Union council,, meeting in Roseburg, was preparing this afternoon to attack the nearly two-score resolutions which have been placed before the commit tees. C o m m Ittee recommendations were scheduled for a late hour this afternoon, with debates and votes on'the measures set for to night and Sunday. A proposal that the C. I. O. can cel its no-strike pledge, unless pledges of price roll-back and subsidies are fulfilled, Is expect ed to be one of the most hotly de bated resoultions. The convention Is expected to go on record with a recommenda tion that Philip Murray, nation al president of the C. I. O., be appointed as a represei.tatlve of labor at the international peace conference. , Senator Holman Target A resolution critical of the congressional record of Senator Rufus Holman and urging, that he be replaced by a man who will "place the safely and wel fare of the people above the In terests of a privileged few," was before the resolutions committee. Other resolutions offer pro grams for combatting anti-labor propaganda, securing peace be tween discordant labor groups, supporting old age pensions, en dorsing fhcnatlohaT'C. I. Dlcjf islative program, and demanding tax exemptions for disabled In dustrial workers. The convention today heard talks by Stanley Duffln, Salt Lake City, representing Allied War Relief and Father Thomas Tohln, Portland, of the American Arbitration association, and re ceived communications from numerous state officials. Richard Montgomery, state di rector of the Office of Price Ad ministration, was schedided as an evening Speaker. Political O. K.'s Expected The convention will continue through Sunday "when the busi ness affairs of the council will receive attention. Aside from the resolutions awaiting action, the convention Is expected to endorse political candidates and will voice opinions on pending legislation. Some legislative matters will be determnled by vote on resolu tions. Resolutions are before the committee expressing opposition to the Frey amendment to the NLRB and the Smlth-Connally and Hobbs bill. Other resolutions would extend benefits of the social security act, and would re peal the Hatch act. Resolutions urge greater par ticipation by the CIO in political (Continued on page 6.) Sub-Zero Blast Hits Southwest (By the Associated Press) Virtually all of the southwest ern high plains were snow-hound today after one of the worst win ter storms in years. Temperatures plummeted to as low as 30 degrees below zero at Craig, Colo., and snow falls of 12 Inches were reported from the Texas Panhandle as drifts piled up to six feet. Eight inches of snow, the heaviest In years, was reported In Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and at least one death was blamed on the weather. Transportation was crippled and livestock raisers, short of feed, feared serious losses. Heavy livestock deaths In the Texas Panhandle reported as that section dug out of the worst blizzard in 52 years. It was four above zero at Amarlllo. North of Amarlllo at Perryton, Tex., one farmer said he counted 159 dead cattle along a 10-mlle st retch of highway. Maximum snowfall In the Pan handle was approximately 12 Inches. Oklahoma highway pa trolmen pulled 900 stranded motorists out of snow banks dur ing the storm. Sub-zero weather was general In western Kansas with a mini mum of 8 below at Garden City. Bombs Turn Gas City Into "Sea of Fire" Mannheim, Industrial Twin, Also Blockbuster Target, Berlin Admits LONDON, Jan. 8. (AP) Britain's wooden Mosquito bomb ers, raiding Germany for the seventh consecutive night, hit targets in the western Reich last night without loss In the wake of a strong American daylight at tack which Swedish reports said gave the chemical city of. Lud wlgshafen a "death blow." Stockholm's Morgan Tidnlngen declared the force of hundreds of Flying Fortresses and Libera tors which drove deep Into south west Germany yesterday bomb ed the I. G. Farben poison gas works at Ludwlgshafen and that the city "now looks completely flattened out." . ; Quoting private reports, the paper said blockbusters and In cendiaries were dropped, setting giant fires which turned the town Into "a sea of fire." " Stockholm reports also said the twin city of Mannheim was; struck. A British communique released today did not designate where their Mosquitos hit last night. The German high command, confirming Swedish reports that Ludwlgshafen and Mannheim were the targets for the Ameri can bomber smash, acknowledges that heavy damage had been done the twin Industrial cities. It claimed that 231 American and British bombers were shot down over Reich territory during tha first week of the new year. Clouds No Obstacle United States fighters, making a round trip flight of some 800 miles, accompanied the Flying Fortresses and Liberators to yes terday's targets In southwest Ger many. American, RAF, Canadian and ailed fighters hovered along the return route to give addition al protection. .The communique said the bombers pressed home their at tack through heavy clouds. Twelve bombers and seven fight .era were lost.. The day's bag raised the total German fighters destroyed In three major American raids this month to 149. While the big American forma tion was penetrating Into Ger many, more than 750 other allied war planes were delivering day long attacks on the French in vasion coast. It was the 16th day of heavy attacks on this sector In the last 18. The Paris radio, In a broad cast recorded by U. S. govern ment monitors, said one of the targets In raids on northern France on Wednesday was now "a heap of ashes." Meanwhile, Indications that the allies were attacking northern France for the 17th time In 19 days came In a Vichy broadcast report of morning raids In that area. In yesterday's large -scale American operation, 42 German fighters were shot down. Nazi Raider Sunk In South Atlantic RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Jan. 8. (AP) The Brazilian government news service an nounced today that the com bined units of the Brazilian and United States fleets sank a German surface raider In the South Atlantlo reoently. The news agency, quoting Capt. C. E. Blaine, chief of staff of the United States South Atlanltc fleet at Re cife, said patrols located the raider, which was carrying war supplies to Germany from Japan. Oregon State Fair Is Again Called Off PORTLAND, Jan. 8. (AP) The Oregon state fair was can celled again today and sponsors said they feared for the postwar future of the annual exposition. Fred Cockell, Milwaukle, told the Oregon Fairs association the state fair would have a hard time attracting attention In- the Im mediate postwar years because It had not been held for several years. vlty pact flant By L. r. lUtienstela A lot of black market pa. trons would rather pay $100 to b a whiskey sport than eon; tributt a dollar to building a transport.
